A raging wildfire along northern California's inland coastal range has now burned about 47,000 acres (18,615 hectares) and forced the closure of two highways, officials said on Sunday, while a blaze near the Oregon border also expanded a day after it killed a...
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The Marist Institute of Public Opinion, a major independent polling organization, is suspending its polling of the Republican field in protest of polls being used as a criteria to determine debate participants, McClatchyDC reports.
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Investigators probing missing flight MH370 collected more metallic debris on an Indian Ocean island Sunday as Malaysia urged authorities in the region to be on alert for wreckage washing up on their shores.
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The so-called "trustees" of the Social Security Administration published their annual report last week and the stenographers of the financial press dutifully reported that the day of reckoning when the trust funds run dry has been put off another year: until 2034.
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The tragic death of Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown's only child offers many poignant end-of-life lessons. Among the most pressing: The need to craft written advance medical directives as early as age 18, experts tell Newsmax Health.
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